PDQ writes

" Most Republicans are good people and Sarah Palin is charismatic and charming. She may be a little bit short of George H. W. Bush on qualification for the VP slot, but so was Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. So was Dan Quayle."

This is an appropriate assessment because what we see is Dan Quayle in a dress.
To say that this strident, anti-choice, fundamentalist, anti-science, anti-environment
loud woman is charming is to give the same equivalence to a porcupine after the spines have been hurled.

" In fact, there were "better qualified" people than Calvin Coolege, Harry S. Truman, Walter Mondale, Spiro Agnew, and most VPs throughout US history. The fact that Ronald Reagan chose a "more qualified" man than himself showed his level of self-confidence."

Ronald Reagan chose a more qualified man than himself to do what? His appointments have always been RNC hacks. Some were indicted criminals.

" Same with George W. Bush's choice of Richard Cheney. Please start talking about issues and stop sliming people.'

You can't always separate the people from their behavior. We don't know many of these people on a personal level but we can morally ask if their actions are helpful to our country.

" Mudcat has already had most of its grownups leave and nasty attacks on Sarah Palin and her children, or on John McCain about plane crashes ain't helping fix the problem."

What grownups?

As I see it, the problem is Republicanism. We've had eight long years of torturous
policies by this Administration (and I use torture metaphorically and literally). I see the selection of Palin as a continuation of these policies which have left our country bankrupt, jobs gone away, health care gutted, an occupation of a foreign country based on lies,
and to add insult to injury, her selection is so obviously motivated by political opportunism and not because of qualifications. I would imagine that Romney, Lieberman et. al are stewing over this misstep.